News article connects Texas man with relatives of baseball teammate killed in 1966

January 9, 2024 at 7:00 a.m.

by Randy Moll

Submitted photo An encased baseball thrown out by Dale Hedrick at the Robert Gwartney Jr. Park in Kilgore, Texas, at the opening of the 2017 season has now been sent to a relative of the 12-year-old baseball player killed in a tragic automobile accident in 1966..
Submitted photo An encased baseball thrown out by Dale Hedrick at the Robert Gwartney Jr. Park in Kilgore, Texas, at the opening of the 2017 season has now been sent to a relative of the 12-year-old baseball player killed in a tragic automobile accident in 1966..

WESTSIDE -- It was late afternoon on Thursday, Dec. 21. With the early holiday deadlines, the Eagle Observer for Dec. 27 had just been paginated and was ready to be sent to the press.